Tuesday, July 7, 2009

Amish Carriage ride


041, originally uploaded by megan bauer.

Our ride into Strausburg, PA took us through the "real" Amish country. The stores had posts for the horses and most of the houses had buggies in their garages. It was really, really bizarre because the houses looked very modern. Like your or my house. Except the garage had a buggy in it AND they all had huge clothes lines w/ clothes drying on them. AND, they don't have electricity. They use propane. Can you imagine? We took a carriage ride down the road and to an Amish house where some Amish boys sold us root beer and cookies. Our "tour guide" ( in this photo to the left of my mom) was raised Amish and left the order when he fell in love at 18. He still speaks Pennsylvania Dutch (the Amish language). The boys were in shock and could not imagine the lives that these children live.

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